The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front

A fresh look at how Northern society mobilized to fight the first great modern war.

Preface

ix

PART ONE. TO ARMS!

Mobilization

5

(17)

The election of 1860

Secession and calls for compromise

Fort Sumter

To arms! Political preparation

First Bull Run

Two Nations at War

22

(17)

Population and economy

Society and culture

Military organization and war aims

PART TWO. HOW A FREE PEOPLE CONDUCT A LONG WAR

Military and Political Adjustments

39

(17)

Success in the West, stalemate in Virginia

1863: high tide of the confederacy?

National politics and the challenges of war

The 37th Congress

Politics at mid-war

Manpower Adjustments

56

(18)

Military organization

The state militia draft

The shift to federal conscription

Who served?

Emotional and Intellectual Adjustments

74

(18)

Loss

Separation

Society and culture

Economic Adjustments

92

(17)

Supplying the military

Funding the war

Economic ebbs and flows

Individual economic experiences

Patriotic Adjustments

109

(16)

Interpreting voluntarism

Organized benevolence

Civil War medicine

Propaganda and ritual

Changes and continuities

Racial Adjustments

125

(16)

Emancipation

Black troops

Southern freedpeople

Free blacks in the North

Politics in the Streets

141

(18)

Political dissent

Violence

Politics in the Confederacy

Women in public

PART THREE. THE ROAD TO VICTORY

Total War in the North?

159

(19)

A modern military machine

The election of 1864

An increasingly powerful state?

A voluntaristic machine?

Free blacks in a changing America

Victory and Its Legacy

178

(21)

Three Sundays in April

War and the federal government

Economic growth and development

Community experiences

Gender roles

Race and class relations

Continuity and change

A Note on Sources

199

(6)

Index

205

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The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front

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